• [2009/05–2012/04] Evening MBA, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• [2003/09–2006/05] M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• [2000/09–2003/08] B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

• [2005] Google Summer of Code grant, for developing preload, an adaptive readahead daemon, with Fedora Project as mentoring organization.
• [2000] Gold Medal, 12th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI’2000), Beijing, China.
• [1999] Silver Medal, 11th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI’99), Antalya, Turkey.

• Internationalization and Localization
  Expert in the Unicode standard and i18n and L10n in software systems in general, and bidirectional writing systems, Arabic script, and Persian language specifically.
• Programming Languages
  Wizard in C. Proficient in Python, bash, PHP. Familiar with C++ and Java.
• Software Management
  Expert in using GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool), git, SVN, CVS, and Bugzilla for software development and maintenance.
• Data Structures, Algorithms, and Graph Theory
  Excellent theoretical and practical background, as demonstrated in IOI competitions.
• Operating Systems and Environments
  Proficient in GNU/Linux and UNIX development and tools. GNOME, GNU, and Fedora developer.

• [2006/06–2010/06] Red Hat Canada. Software Engineer.
  Responsibilities included improving, implementing new features, and maintaining packages in the Linux Desktop in Red Hat Enterprise Linux product and the Fedora project, including addressing customer problems, working with the Open Source community including various parts of the GNOME project, and handling internationalization (i18n) issues and coordinating with the i18n team.
• [2000/09–2003/08] The FarsiWeb Project. Researcher and senior developer.
  The FarsiWeb Project is a research project working on internationalization and Persian localization of computer systems. As part of this project, I contributed patches to various software projects, including Mozilla, Qt, KDE, Glib, Pango, Gtk+, fontconfig, glibc, and the Unicode standard, and co-edited two Iranian national standards on adopting Unicode for Persian computing.
• [Summer–2003] Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. Co-founder.
  Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. is a company specialized in distributing and supporting Sharif Linux, consulting technical and legal issues of Free/Open Source Software, and standardizing Persian language issues in information technology in Iran.

• [2007–now] GNOME Foundation. Software maintainer and developer. Volunteer.
  The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors administers the GNOME Foundation. I served as a director for the 2007..2009 calendar years. I also served as the president of the Foundation from January 2008 to June 2009.
• [2002–now] The Unicode Consortium.
  Contributing volunteer member of technical committee and bidirectional scripts subcommittee.

Mostly performed as volunteer unpaid work or as part of my job at the time.

• [2006–now] HarfBuzz Shaping Engine. Maintainer and developer.
  HarfBuzz is the Free and Open Source OpenType shaping engine used primarily by GNOME and KDE, but also Google Chromium among others.
• [2006–now] Cairo Graphics Library. Developer and Co-maintainer.
  Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Responsibilities include bug fixing, making releases, general maintenance, and working with a community of contributors.
• [2005–now] Pango, Vte, Gucharmap, and Dasher. Developer and Co-maintainer.
  All are part of the GNOME project. Pango is a powerful modular Unicode text rendering engine. Vte is a terminal emulation widget. Gucharmap is a Unicode character map application. Dasher is an innovative predictive text input-method.
• [2005–2006] preload. Developer and maintainer.
  preload is an adaptive readahead daemon for desktop systems. It predicts applications that users may run and prefetches them from the disk for faster startup times. It was awarded a Google grant, and developed for the Fedora Project. Base work for my Masters thesis.
• [2004–now] GNU miscfiles. Co-maintainer (with Roozbeh Pournader).
  By appointment of Richard Stallman.
• [2001–now] GNU FriBidi. Lead developer and maintainer.
  FriBidi is an Open Source implementation of The Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX#9), used in AbiWord word processor and Pango text rendering engine, as a requirement to support Arabic and Hebrew scripts. FriBidi is part of the GNU project, by appointment of Richard Stallman.
• [2000–now] RiRa Persian Digital Library. Lead developer and maintainer.
  RiRa is a huge database of Persian poetry available to public. Designed and implemented using PostgreSQL and PHP.
• [1998–now] FarsiTEX Project. Developer and technical manager.
  FarsiTEX is a bilingual (Persian, English) typesetting system based on LATEX. Subject of my BSc. final project.
• [2003] Squash. Developer.
  Designed and implemented an HTTP gateway and masquerader for Ministry of Education of Iran, enabling access from universities across the country to member-only online academic resources.
• [2001–now] Teaching Assistant.
  More than ten appointments at University of Toronto St George and Scarborough campuses. Responsibilities included: giving tutorials, designing and grading problem sets and finals. Mostly in the area of software design and tools.

• [2009] “HarfBuzz, the Free and Open Shaping Engine”, presented at Internationalization & Unicode Conference 34, Santa Clara, CA USA.
• [2009] “Free Software stack for Unicode Text Rendering”, presented at Internationalization & Unicode Conference 34, Santa Clara, CA USA.
• [2009] “State of Text Rendering”, whitepaper. Presented at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Gran Canaria, Spain.
• [2007] “GNOME, ten years of freedom”, presented at the first Ontario Linux Fest, Toronto, Canada.
• [2007] “Co-maintaining cairo: cool community, cool code”, with Carl Worth, presented at GUADEC 2007, Birmingham, UK.
• [2006] “All Your Fonts…”, presented at GUADEC 2006, Vilanova, Spain.
• [2005] “Bloat of Data in the Unicode Era”, presented at the second Desktop Developers Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
• [2004] “Bidirectional Layouts in GTK+”, presented at the first Desktop Developers Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
• [2004] “Persian Computing with Unicode”, presented at Twenty-fifth Internationalization and Unicode Conference by Amir Youssefi.
• [2003] “The Common-Deadline Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem”, with M. Ghodsi and A. Sharifi, presented at Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, Ottawa, Canada. Published in proceedings of WADS’2003: 59–66, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
• [2002] “FarsiTEX, and the Iranian TEX Community”, with R. Pournader, presented at The TEX Users Group Annual Conference & Meeting (TUG’2002), published in proceedings of TUG’2002, TUGboat 22:3.

• English: Fluent. Reading, Writing, Speaking.
• Persian: Excellent, native.

Available upon request.